Building For the Future

We're Breaking Down The Circa Mid-70s Concrete Walls

The 700 block of Hamilton Street is undergoing a major redevelopment to open the doors wider to the community and provide even better CBC/Radio-Canada programming.

The CBC/Radio-Canada Production Centre, with its integrated newsroom, will form the cornerstone of our redevelopment. You will be able to observe the newsroom and studios in action from street level and from inside the new interactive Georgia/Hamilton Street entrance. The integrated newsroom, with updated technology, will provide a more dynamic and collaborative working environment so that CBC/Radio-Canada can continue to connect Canadians far and wide with compelling local, national and international stories.

The newly renovated CBC/Radio-Canada Plaza will be an open and accessible space that will invite you to enjoy a variety of live community events or simply relax in a welcoming urban oasis. The community performance studio and outdoor stage will be available to non-profit organizations, attracting diverse audiences for performances hosted by CBC/Radio-Canada and many of Vancouver’s renowned cultural community organizations.

As part of the redevelopment and through the City’s Cultural Services Department, three of Vancouver’s most popular and long-standing festivals will establish the Vancouver Festival Centre. The Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Vancouver International Children’s Festival and Vancouver Folk Music Festival will create a central festival box office, library, resource and information centre accessible to the community at large and a meeting place for the local festival community.

How are we able to do this? We sold the density of our parking lot to Concord Pacific Group Inc., where they are now building two residential towers. The revenue from this sale and the sale of our warehouse, as well as generated sales from the development, are financing the project.

Construction is scheduled to be finished by Fall, 2009.

The entrance to the CBC/Radio-Canada building is now temporarily moved to 775 Cambie Street.